{"id":189428,"date":"2010-03-31T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/31\/moron-4\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T00:36:00","slug":"moron-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/31\/moron-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Moron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Republican Senate Candidate, Carly Fiorina, who appears to intend to do to the Golden State what she did to Hewlett Packard,<sup>*<\/sup>, has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0310\/Breaking_bread_with_Fiorina.html?showall\">Jewish voters to &#8220;break bread&#8221; over Passover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>This week, as we <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">break bread<\/span><\/span> and spend time with our families and friends, I hope we also take a moment to say a word of thanks for our freedom and for those who have given their lives in freedom\u2019s name. Let us also look ahead with hope to the opportunities to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t get it, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jews are not supposed to eat bread during Passover<\/span>.  What we eat is Matzoh, which is an unleavened biscuit which has more in common with the box that it comes in than it does with a loaf of bread.<\/p>\n<p>This is really, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">really<\/span> stupid, and statement from her PR flak, that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/03\/carly-fiorinas.html\">We meant all bread, leavened and unleavened, and matzo is just unleavened bread so that&#8217;s what we meant by that,<\/a>&#8221; is just plain lame.<\/p>\n<p>Matzoh is not bread, as any of the millions of Jews who are Jonesing for a piece of bread right now can tell you, and the idea of describing a Passover Seder (ritual festival meal) as &#8220;breaking bread&#8221; is wrong on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">so many levels<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The stupid, it burns us!<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">When she was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;\" >fired<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"> employees sprang into spontaneous song, singing, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&amp;forum=389&amp;topic_id=6929115&amp;mesg_id=6942087\">Ding, Dong, the witch is dead<\/a>!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Full letter follows<br \/><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Forwarded message &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>From: Carly Fiorina <carly@carlyforcalifornia.com><br \/>Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:09 PM<br \/>Subject: Best wishes for a safe and happy Passover<\/p>\n<p>Carly for California<\/p>\n<p>Passover is a time of remembrance and thanks. This festival provides us all \u2014 Jewish, Christian and all faiths \u2014 an opportunity to reflect on the challenges we have faced and the triumphs we have achieved together. It is also a reminder of the resilient spirit that has carried people through trials of every kind through every generation.<\/p>\n<p>This week, as we break bread and spend time with our families and friends, I hope we also take a moment to say a word of thanks for our freedom and for those who have given their lives in freedom\u2019s name. Let us also look ahead with hope to the opportunities to come.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes for a safe and happy holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Carly Fiorina<\/p>\n<p>contact@carlyforca.com<br \/>www.CarlyForCalifornia.com<\/p>\n<p>915 L Street, Suite C-378<br \/>Sacramento, CA 95814<br \/>877-664-6676<\/p>\n<p>Paid for by Carly for California<\/carly@carlyforcalifornia.com><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Republican Senate Candidate, Carly Fiorina, who appears to intend to do to the Golden State what she did to Hewlett Packard,*, has now Jewish voters to &#8220;break bread&#8221; over Passover: This week, as we break bread and spend time with our families and friends, I hope we also take a moment to say a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1021,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-religion","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}